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    The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World

    By Alexander Roy

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    The riveting memoir of a life lived at the right-hand edge of the speedometer.

    Alex Roy's father, while on his deathbed, hints about the notorious, utterly illegal cross-country drive from Los Angeles to New York of the 1970s, which then inspired his young son to enter the mysterious world of underground road rallies. Tantalized by the legend of the Driver—the anonymous, possibly nonexistent organizer of the world's ultimate secret race—Roy set out to become a force to be reckoned with. At speeds approaching 200 mph, he sped from London to Morocco, from Budapest to Rome, from San Francisco to Miami, in his highly modified BMW M5, culminating in a new record for the infamous Los Angeles to New York run: 32:07.

    Sexy, funny, and shocking, The Driver is a never-before-told insider's look at an unbelievably fast and dangerous society that has long been off-limits to ordinary mortals.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061864766
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    • 4/5
      When I received this book as a gift I dismissed it as likely to be the typical unauthentic, over dramatic portrayal of the life and lifestyle of street drag racers or worse, tuner/drifters. A Fast and the Furious in prose. I wasn't looking forward to it. Boy was I wrong. The Driver is a memoir of a participant in a motor racing sub-culture known as endurance rallying. It is an insight into this small group of people who make a science of driving cross country as fast as they can - sometimes as fast as 175 mph - on public highways and Interstates for 600, 700, 1000, 1200 miles a day. Unbelievably dangerous and irresponsible but real and fascinating. The basis for Roy's involvement is the viewing of Rendezvous, the car geeks' cult classic short move in which an unidentified driver races flat-out halfway across Paris though normal traffic with a camera on the hood of his Ferrari. On his deathbed, Roy’s father reveals that The Driver still lives. I don't recall any mention of sabotage, only that Roy becomes determined to find and meet him. In the process he gets hooked on the challenge of driving faster, further than anyone else. The book concludes with his record-breaking attempt to drive from New York to Santa Monica (?) in less than 31 hours.Roy's writing isn't going to win any literary awards but for a gearhead it is really good (and I've read a lot of gearhead books). The Driver will appeal to a pretty narrow audience but for someone that has a background in motorsports or anyone who takes their cross country driving seriously (food, bathroom only when fuel is needed - calculating average speed and ETA) will really enjoy this book. (But probably not good for someone who already has too many points on their license.) --SA Justus
    • 4/5
      An autobiography about a Driver who drives to find the person who sabatoged his dads car before a race. He races illeagaly for the fun of it and he gets chased by cops and gets pulled over a lot of times.Great book for people who like cars and for people who like street racing.